Joseph



J. APPLIN.

GARSBAT.

Patented June 17, 1890.

(No Model.)

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH APPLIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 430,413, dated June 17,1890.

Application filed April 20, 1889. Serial No. 307,951. (No model.)

zen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Car-Seats, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a car-seat that can bereversed by turning over the back, at the same time inclining theseat-section.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of aportion of the car-seat structure with one of the end frames and theseat-section removed. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of myimproved car-seat structure with the seat and back in dotted lines. Fig.3 is a sectional View showing the back partially tilted. Fig. 4 is asection on the line 1 2, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line 34, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a sectional view illustrating the locking-pin.

A is one of the end frames of the seat,-made in any form, or ornamented,as desired, and connecting this end frame with the side of the car oranother end frame are longitudinal bars a a, the bars a being directlyunder the seat-section, by preference, and the bars a near the floor andacting as foot-rests.

B is'a casting or plate secured to or forming part of each side frame A,and on this frame is suspended the seat-bracket D, as.

shown more clearly in Fig. 1, carrying the seat-frame C, Fig. 2.

E is the back of the seat, having at each end pivot-plates e e, andpivoted to these plates 6 at e is a link in the form of a fiat bar F,which is also pivoted to the side frame A at c. Pivoted at e to eachplate 6 is a bar G, which is also pivoted at f in the present instanceto a sliding block on-t-he bar F. This bar G eX- tends down preferablybelow the seat, and is connected thereto in the manner describedhereinafter, in order to give the seat the proper tilting effectdesirable in this class of car-seats. The bar G passes through a blockH, which is pivoted to the plate B or to the side frame A itself, sothat on the tilting of the seat the bar G has a vertical movement insaid block H and a swinging movement as the back is turned over. Whenthe back comes to rest at the position shown in Fig. 2 or in the reverseposition, the bar G comes in contact with lugs 17 b on the plate B,sustainin g the weight of the back and act-ing as striker-lugs in placeof the usual striker-lugs situated on the side frames above theseatlevel.

In the block H is a locking-pin 1' of the construction shown in thedetail view, Fig. 6. A spring back of the pin tends to throw it inposition and lock the bar G to the block H, when the seat is thrown overto either position. By inserting a key or hook in the lockpin, as shown,the pin can be withdrawn from engagement with the bar and the seatturned. By having the lock-pin in this position it is out of the way andout of sight, and can be a simple lock-pin, as it is not likely to betampered with, as in car-seats of the ordinary construction.

The lower end of the bar G passes through a socket cl in theseat-carrying bracket D, so that any vibrating movement of the bar willbe conveyed to the seat-carrying frame. This seat-carrying frame has twolugs j j, projections on which pass through inclined orifices 7c in theplate B, and these projections have lips j, as shown in Fig. 5, so thatby merely tilting the seat-frame, as shown by dotted lines in saidfigure, the projections can be introduced into the inclined orifices inthe plate B, and when the frame assumes the position shown by full linesin Fig. 5 it is firmly held in position on the plate. By this means '1dispense with the bolts or other contrivances used in attaching theseat-carrying frame to the side frames. The seat-frame rests loosely onlips on the brackets, as shown.

It will be seen that the inclined orifices 70 k are inclined in oppositedirections, so that when the seat is in the position shown in Fig. 2 theprojections on the lugs j on the seatcarrying frame at one end will bein the 11pper end of the orifice, while the projections on the lugs atthe opposite end will be in the lower end of the orifice, giving thedesired slant to the seat. By reversing the seat-back the carrying'frameis moved to a position opposite that shown, and the seat is consequentlyinclined in the opposite direction.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a car-seat structure, ofthe frame, with a bar pivoted to said frame and pivoted to the back,with a rod, also pivoted to the back and having a sliding connectionwith said bar, and guided at its lower end, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

2. The combination, in a car-seat, of the back and seatsections, theframe, a pivoted block H, carried by said frame, a bar F, pivoted to theframe and to the back-section, with a rod G, pivoted to the back-sectionat a distance from the pivot-point of the bar F, and having a slidingconnection with the bar F and adapted to slide in the said block H,substantially as described.

The combination of the frame, the backi section, the bar pivoted to theback-section and to the frame, and a rod pivoted also to theback-section and having a sliding connection with the bar, and guided atits lower end, With stop-lugs b b on the frame in the longitudinal pathof the rod for limiting the movement of the back, substantially as deing upon the bracket to move it as the back is moved, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

5. The combination, in a car-seat, of th side frames, inclined slotstherein, with opposite independent detachable seat-carrying brackets,lugs thereon resting in said slots, and by which the brackets aresuspended on the side frames, and lips on the brackets on which theseat-frame rests, substantially as described.

6. The combination of the side frames A, the back and seat sections,bars F F, pivoted to the side frame and to the back-section, rods G G,each pivoted to the back-section, and having a sliding connection withthe bars F, pivoted blocks on the frame, through which the bars G pass,with a locking-bolt carried by one of said blocks, said bolt adapted tolock the rod to the block and hold the backsection in either of its twopositions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

' JOSEPH APPLIN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. CONNER, HARRY SMITH.

